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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

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How to manage the new 'data tsunami' As providers rushed to roll out new telehealth services in response to the pandemic, many weren't – and many still aren't – prepared to manage the upsurge of new data, and new data types, streaming into their electronic health records. How to train employees for the new normal.

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Report: Telemedicine Reimbursement Limitations Cost Millions, ‘Impede Expansion’

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Most of those 31 did not qualify because the patients received care in locations not considered rural.”. Telehealth continues to grow as more services and policies are being implemented on the state and federal level,” according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Solving the Problem of Telemedicine Reimbursement.

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Reimagining everything for remote care. The entire foundation of healthcare is built on in-person care. Everything needs to be reimagined for remote care, said Canino at Johns Hopkins Health Systems. " Health IT is an art similar to having to reconfigure an airplane in flight, Dawson described.

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Taming the beast of multistate provider licensure for telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. And with staffing shortages in all phases of care, there are fewer trained professionals to manage increasingly complicated processes.